SUBS FREE TASTER: "Major Life Update. We're Getting Divorced. Any Questions?"

0:08 You're listening to a Mamma Mia podcast.

0:14 And today I want to talk about divorce. Firstly, you guys pro or con?

0:21 Good question.

0:22 Neutral. In the right circumstances.

0:25 Big fan.

0:26 Took the words right out of my mouth.

0:29 Well, I want to talk about a friend of mine named Michael. He's not really a friend, but he's got famous overnight. He did an Instagram post announcing his divorce from his.

0:37 Wife, Chloe.

0:39 So what he said was, it was just a text post, like text on a blank screen. It said, major life update, friends. Chloe and I have made the difficult decision to divorce. It is a mutual decision.

0:50 No hearts are.

0:51 Broken or feelings hurt. We are still friends.

0:54 Have any questions?

0:55 Well, and then he did an.

0:57 FAQ for divorce questions.

0:59 Before I go into the questions, I want to make clear that his profile was on.

1:03 Public when this happened. Big mistake.

1:06 The algorithm gods got hold of this post and it's now gone completely viral. It's been viewed over 5 million times and everyone who is everyone is commenting on this post.

1:16 Because I have questions.

1:17 He's kind of a genius though because we would have all seen that when we have gone through breakups or when our friends or people in our lives have gone through serious breakups.

1:29 You have to.

1:30 Decide how to handle it on social media if you are a social media person. Now, Em, we all know that you don't think men should have Instagram accounts. Yes.

1:37 Let alone public ones. This is why.

1:39 So you've already got strike one against Michael. But you have to decide how to handle it. We all know the signs that we think a relationship is rocky on social media.

1:50 Yeah.

1:50 So definitely I've had friends get divorces like after a short period. They're particularly interesting because you're like, well, something big's happened.

1:57 You haven't grown apart. You haven't had the time.

2:00 It's the first move to delete the wedding photos from your reel. Yeah.

2:03 So the sign is you just get a spidey sense, right? They put up a story and you can't explain it. It's just in the water that you go, something isn't right about this image.

2:12 And you do notice for a while that they're not posting together.

2:17 They're not posting together. They're posting more suddenly because you go, you haven't popped up on my feed for a while. And then you obviously go to their profile. Then you start to scroll and you go, okay, they haven't posted together for a while. Oh, we've had a mass delete. Then what you do is you go following. And you click and you go, do they still follow their husband?

2:37 No, they don't.

2:38 Does he still follow her? Yes, because he's not on Instagram.

2:41 Yes.

2:42 The only mutual account they have is their pet account, like their dog.

2:46 And you're like, who's managing that? I need to know. Has someone changed their password? You add that to your FAQ list. Exactly.

2:52 Who's managing the dog account?

2:54 So then I see that and I think, well, I have questions. I had this recently with an influencer that I follow. I could tell months before she'd declared it that she'd divorced and I was like, I have so many questions about this. Was it before or after your holiday to Fiji? What did he do? Because I knew he'd done something and I would have liked to just send them all through or at least be given a public statement so that I could have my questions answered.

3:21 So I completely understand why you would.

3:23 Don't you think, though, from my... So tell us what happens after this. I read all the questions and then I still had questions. So tell us what Michael shared on his... It was a swipe through carousel, am I right?

3:34 It was just about like four-ish questions. So he said.

3:38 The question was, what happened? And he said, we both feel like our lives are no longer compatible and that a future together would lead to unfair compromises on both sides.

3:47 See, now I just have five more questions.

3:49 Like, what compromises? I need to know.

3:51 Question. What about Millie and Bug?

3:53 Answer.

3:54 Chloe will be taking them. Millie and Bug kids? Are they dogs? Are they cats?

3:57 I don't know.